572

Year 572 (DLXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 572 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Events

By place

Byzantine Empire

• Persian territory, besieging the fortress city of Nisibis (modern Turkey).^[1]

• Siege of Pavia (569–572): King Alboin captures Ticinum (Pavia); after a siege the Byzantine garrison surrenders to the Lombards. The city is of strategic importance, lying at the rivers Po and Ticino, and becomes the capital of the Kingdom of the Lombards
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• Helmechis (the king's squire); both flee to seek Byzantine protection in Ravenna. Alboin is succeeded as king by Cleph, who is not related by blood
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• Theodric succeeds his brother Æthelric as king of Bernicia (southeastern Scotland). He rules until 579.

Asia

• Taspar Qaghan succeeds his brother Muqan Qaghan as ruler (khagan) of the Turkic Khaganate (Central Asia).
• 30th emperor
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Mesoamerica

• First Tikal-Calakmul War
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Births

• Chen Shuda, Chinese statesman
• Hovnan Mayravanetsi, Armenian philosopher

Deaths

• June 28 – Alboin, king of the Lombards
• Æthelric of Bernicia, Scottish king
• Báetán mac Muirchertaig, High King of Ireland
• Corippus, Byzantine epic poet (approximate date)
• Eochaid mac Domnaill, High King of Ireland
• Hulü Guang, general of Northern Qi (b. 515)
• Liuva I, king of the Visigoths (or 571)
• Muqan Qaghan, ruler of the Göktürks
• Waldrada, Lombard princess (b. 531
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• Wei Shou, Chinese author (b. 506)
• Yuwen Hu, regent of Northern Zhou (b. 515)
• Sky Witness, ruler of Calakmul

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